Modern Family Review: “The Help” (Season 5, Episode 6) - WGTC

WGTC writes: Modern Family has won plenty of Emmys during its run, including Best Comedy for four years straight. Some weeks, that honour seems well deserved. Other weeks, the show’s accolades are dumbfounding. It is one of the most inconsistent shows on television, but at least there are enough superb writers, directors and actors working on it that there are weeks where everything seems to coalesce into an episode that is witty, quick, funny and genuinely sweet – sometimes all within the same scene. Discounting the two season five openers, the episodes this year have a pattern similar to the Star Trek movies: the odd-numbered episodes are lousy, the even-numbered ones strong. Naturally, The Help – the sixth episode of season five – is a winner.